Swedish Almond Cake

I love a perfect cake to go with my afternoon coffee. This friends, is that perfect cake. It’s super moist, dense, and has a hint of lemon and almond.

My friend, Pilvi, from Finland is so kind. She went to Austria and brought me back a beautiful cookbook. With a recipe for the famous Sacher Torte. A beautiful dense chocolate cake, with an apricot filling and chocolate glaze. It’s divine. I know because she made it and gave me a piece (and she explained it was much work to make)!

And I brought her was this lovely almond cake. Should I tell her how absolutely easy it is to make? Pilvi, if you are reading this, I love you, but this was too easy to make, especially compared to your beautiful sacher torte.

*note* I used homemade vanilla sugar in this recipe. You could use regular, and add vanilla extract or half a vanilla bean, scraped.

38 comments on “Swedish Almond Cake”

This looks so elegant on your cake stand with the gold ribbon — beautiful! (You’re right — you’d never know it was so easy to make — thanks!) I’ve always wanted to try Sacher Torte, too, but I could be happy eating this Almond Cake for a long time… 🙂

I am headed over right now so we can have coffee and cake together:-) I love when a recipe is super easy to make but looks like you took hours to prepare. I am sure your friend enjoyed every bite of this yumminess!!!

With all the blog parties out there, and at one of the busiest times of the year, it means an awful lot that you take the time to share your talent on “A Little Birdie Told Me…” Tuesdays at Rook No. 17!

I used to work next to a Swedish bakery that made the most divine little almond things called ‘Almond Boats’ … the boat part (crust, maybe ½ in. thick) appeared to be something between a pastry and a cookie, whilst the filling part was very moist, dense, almond flavored and, whilst still warm, lightly frosted in a delicate almond glaze. I don’t think I’ve ever tasted anything quite so good, and long to find the recipe. Oh, they were baked in a form that resembled the shape of a little boat that was pointed on both ends, measuring approx. 3 & 1/2 inches in length, and maybe 2 inches deep. Have you ever heard of them? I’m going to try your recipe right this minute, and see if it is anywhere near what I remember. If you know the ‘Almond Boat’ recipe would it be possible to let me know where to find it. Thanks so much for sharing this one!

I just made this and am eating it while posting this… It’s fantastic! I actually made it gluten free by subbing 1/3 cup almond flour and 2/3 cup Bobs Red Mill gluten free baking mix. It came out perfect, I had no problem removing it from the pan which I greased with butter and dusted with almond meal. Tank you for sharing this, it’s a treasure!

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